Mantis Botnet: The Largest DDoS Attack Ever Mitigated
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Summary Of The Attack
- In June 2022, Cloudflare reported on the largest HTTPS DDoS attack that they have ever mitigated, a 26 million request per second attack which is the largest attack on record.
- Mantis is small, being powered by approximately 5,000 bots, which are compromised of virtual machines and powerful servers giving the botnet much more strength than its size would suggest.
- Mantis is working over HTTPS, which is more expensive in terms of required computational resources because of the higher cost of establishing a secure TLS-encrypted connection.
- Cloudflare’s automated DDoS protection system leverages dynamic fingerprinting to detect and mitigate Mantis DDoS attack.